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Bright Star
- Director: Jane Campion
- Writer: Jane Campion
- Producer: Jan Chapman; Caroline Hewitt
CGiii Comment
Gay subtext done with a sledgehammer by a lesbian writer/director - beautiful to look at....but, exceedingly dull to watch.
The inaccuracies are simply crippling - directors who write should consider how they would like to see their lives depicted when put in the hands of an auteur.
This is irresponsible and exceedingly turgid.
Those critics that praised - praise themselves for being critics.
Monotonously painful.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
It's 1818 in Hampstead Village on the outskirts of London. Poet Charles Brown lives in one half of a house, the Dilkes family who live in the other half. Through their association with the Dilkes, the fatherless Brawne family know Mr. Brown. The Brawne's eldest daughter, Fanny Brawne, and Mr. Brown don't like each other. She thinks he's arrogant and rude, and he feels that she is pretentious, knowing only how to sew (admittedly well as she makes all her own fashionable clothes), flirt and give opinions on subjects about which she knows nothing. Insecure struggling poet John Keats comes to live with his friend, Mr. Brown. Miss Brawne and Mr. Keats have a mutual attraction to each other, a relationship which however is slow to develop in part since Mr. Brown does whatever he can to keep the two apart.
Cast & Characters
Abbie Cornish as Fanny Brawne;
Ben Whishaw as John Keats;
Paul Schneider as Mr. Brown;
Kerry Fox as Mrs. Brawne;
Edie Martin as Toots;
Thomas Sangster as Samuel;
Claudie Blakley as Maria Dilke;
Gerard Monaco as Charles Dilke;
Antonia Campbell-Hughes as Abigail;
Samuel Roukin as Reynolds;
Amanda Hale as Reynolds Sister;
Lucinda Raikes as Reynolds Sister;
Samuel Barnett as Mr. Severn;
Jonathan Aris as Mr. Hunt;
Olly Alexander as Tom Keats